And What Do You Do? Book about the Royal Family by Norman Baker

I think our Queen is an incredible woman who has taken her vows seriously and puts the country first.

William and Kate are great role models and instil great confidence for the future of the monarchy.

I am proud to be British and mightily proud of our Queen. I love to be in London watching the tourists marvel at the palaces.

I went to see the Queen Mother laying in state, it was incredible.
I was also fortunate enough to be in Horseguards for Diana’s funeral.

As a family we stood for the National Anthem before the Queens speech.

Right ready for the onslaught.......,,

I guess people believe that they contribute few pence a year and that Royalty bring in money because of tourism is proven untrue This would open a few people's eyes to the total cost and what is kept hidden. A good enough reason to read the book.

A Royal protection officer speaks about PA in an interview and has written a book.

I thought it was dreadful. Badly written, historically selective, polemical. I am no royalist, but found it practically unreadable.

Thanks Grany for this thread. I didn’t know Norman Baker is a 62y old former MP from Aberdeenshire. The book was published this year and is getting rave reviews!

I shall buy it on my Kindle.

Only worry is, I might have to up my blood pressure tablets when reading it!

I think Charles will cull the numbers in the Firm. He realises the pitfalls ahead and will streamline. Jumps before being pushed I think.

I have been reading this book
It has passed my expectations of just ridiculous it is that we continue to pay for this family to live such privilege lives.

A really good read for anyone not sure how they feel about the RF

They cost us far more than is usually made public. Just security is an ongoing huge expense.

Time to cull.

Brace yourself Grany. I will be watching without comment. Less stressful.

Erm, I thought he did go to Pizza Express?

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This is a cogent, timely and very important study of an ancient institution, the monarchy, which has evolved highly modern methods of spin and obfuscation - especially about its money. Respect for a dedicated long-serving Queen has stifled analysis of the remarkable "shell game" which generations of her family and courtiers have shuffled assets and income between public and private (not unlike MPs and peers "flipping" their residences to help their allowances) and hidden the true costs of the Royal Family to its taxpaying subjects. Looking deeper behind Norman Baker's vivid stories and telling analysis one picks up a sense of the extraordinary lives they lead, and the weird assumptions on which these are based. At least one member might now be happier if he had lived a normal life of paying for his own holidays and going to parties at Pizza Express.